alive (Barely), awake (alittle) at an internet cafe What a day yesterday was. jennifer and I left the dells for milwaukee and made the almost 2 hour trip there. there were alot of state troopers on the highway so i couldn't speed alittle more than I wanted to. if there wasn't we would've made it there in about 90 minutes. be it as it may we got to milwaukee. I regassed up the harley and Jennifer's cell phone goes off. Tammy (Bloodintheeye as she's known here in blurty) was wondering where we were at. they were about 20 minutes from Milwaukee so we decided to just meet up at the gas station we were already at.
they pull up in their car and I finally get to meet Tammy in person. her and Her husband Jerry. I told em I knew about lincolnwood, illinois where they're from. at the corner of crawford and lunt is a house, across the street from a grade school. my grandparents used to live in that house. They knew the area and told me the house isn't how i remember it. more run down, garage door broke and partly open all year round. such a shame. anyway she saw my motorcycle and said "and the people in blurty don't believe you have a harley and a mexican girlfriend. I can vouche for both now". and we all laughed before heading on... tammy and Jerry checked into the hotel they made reservations for. There was only one more room available, jennifer and I looked at each other and decided right there to take it, why drive back to the dells and then drive back again to see collective soul, when we didn't have to.afterwards we went on to Summerfest.
we get there and we spent most of the day eating, playing games, hitting a few of the rides. i forgot how much i loved the bumper car ride, lol. Tammy and jennifer had decided to double team on me as often as they could so they'd whack me from different sides every time. the bitches, lol. threw darts at baloons and won acouple mirrors, threw more darts at poster and won acouple posters as well. Tammy saw first hand that I do like to drink alot of beer, lol. there were plenty of beer stands around, lol. Jennifer was having her fair share and tammy decided to join in. Jerry waited til later as he doesn't drink beer much, he's more of a jack and coke man (yuk, lol). On the flip side he likes southern rock bands like lynard skynard and the allman brothers, so he scored points with me, lol.
The Frampton concert? MOTHERFUCKING...AWESOME!!!!! i had never seen him live before, he played songs from a new album he has out but he covered all the classics too. if the collective soul concert is half as good as this, it'll be one awesome fucking weekend, that's for sure. we were third row from the stage, tammy and Jerry were a few rows back. never reeally rrealized what a great guitarist frampton is. fucking under rated that's for sure.
it ended alittle after 10. so what to do? I knew what jennifer wanted to do, she wanted to find a place to sing karaoke. Tammy said she read about me doing it so if i knew a place..funny she asked as anyone who's read this journal knows, the last lap has karaoke on weekends and it was where julie and I always went. so I said follow me, I know where the bar is. when we got there it wasn't as jammed with people as i knew it was gonna be after 11 which was a good thing. cause Tammy and Jerry got to park their car across the street while I squeezed my harley into a spot right in front. I was wearing my Iron Justice M.C. shirt (today I'm wearing the four horsemen m.c. one, representing all the way, lol). and when these college guys were gonna say something about parking so close they saw my shirt and stopped...they just nodded their head and I was trying to keep from chuckling about it. something about me wearing that shirt, black jeans, boots and my black bandana does make an impression i guess, lol.
we walked in and there looked to be 4 seats at the far end of the bar available. The owner Mike saw me and recognized me. big smile and cleared off that area so we could take right over. after shaking hands and reintroducing him to Jennifer, and then introducing tammy and jerry, I pulled out the card he once gave me about a free bar tab. I asked if I should just toss this since I'm not with Julie anymore (mike's bar is in a building owned by julie's father if you remember). he said "fuck that, keep it. the catch for having that card enfoced tonight is don't fill out a bunch of song cards". i was like huh? he and his wife were gonna throw in their own song requests for me to sing from the bunch they know I could do. so free bar tab for jennifer and I(food and drinks no limit) as long as I sing the songs they throw into the mix, who'd say no to that? not me that's for fucking sure.
just as a side note...Jennifer just to me, looks so HOT wearing a black "chicago harley-davidson" tank top and jeans...just felt like saying that, lol.
so we all ordered some food and drinks. and the place was filling up. We heard some real horrible fucking singers. Tammy don't sing even though we tried to jab into trying, she said she sounds worse than the bad ones we're hearing, lol. she then asks if I can do any toby keith songs( she's toby keith fanatic I take it). I said i can do one. I said you find the one I can do and I'll do it. I filled out acouple cards and just let mike and his wife decide the rest. we all decided we were gonna stay til bar time anyway. There were a few real good singers and you can judge by the applause and ovations. then jennifer took the stage for her first song and that was it. she was just hot on that mic last night. we didn't even have to walk up the cards, Mike took em and handed them to his wife himself. soon as the intro to "rhiannon" (live version from "the Dance" cd) played. She had em..she had the crowd perfectly. Tammy looked at me and said "your girlfriend has an excellent singing voice". I smiled and just said "i know, her voice is one of many things that are excellent about her". she had the loudest ovation every time she went up there.
There was a bad moment...my exgirlfriend Julie came in with who I guess is her new boyfriend. we just stared at each other and her man tried to give me a staredown that didn't work. here's thie thing, this guy has his baseball cap tilted way to the side, almost falling off his head, his baggy ass pants drooping past his ass and he trying to be all gangster..and he's what 30 years old? nothing more funnier than a maybe 30 year old trying to play gangster. After he passed I waved it off and went back to my food and beer. making cracks about a 30 year old wannabe gang banger.
My name gets called and here came a case of bad bad timing. wrong song at the wrong time that aggravated the situation. Tammy's toby keith request was it. "a little too late", which if you don't know the song it's one of them adios amigo to someone you broke up with songs. I didn't make the conection and just belted the song out, which got a nice ovation. after i got settled in my seat again julie's boyfriend comes up and starts in how I delibertly sang that to aggravate julie, where do i get off coming into this bar, blah blah...and blah...I let him go on for about 3 minutes and then i got off the bar stool and saw I was the same size as him (him alittle fatter) so i said "this couple here asked me to sing it way before you two came in, and i'll go into any bar i damn well please, now piss off". of course because he wants to be macho he gets into that "gangster" movements with his arms and hands and I just wound up busting out laughing at him. so he starts poking me in the chest mouthing off. I told him, "I've allowed you to do that twice, try that a third time and I promise you, you won't...get the same reaction". he went into his gangster bs movements again and I just started laughing again. Mike got his doorman to come over. Mike told the idiot, "Bill here is right, i was standing right here when this woman asked bill to sing that song, now julie's dad may own this building but this is still my bar, and you two will be tossed out if you keep the bullshit up". course me being the asshole I am chimed in with "yeah so go sit down before I knock your ass down". the idiots gets alittle louder and his gangster movements go faster, which made jennifer, jerry, tammy and i all laugh at him at once (nothing like 4 people punking out your wannabe macho antics by laughing in your face about how stupid you look trying to be a gangster when you have no clue what one is). he went and sat down but they quickly left out the back door....after they left i said "now that we got the episode of the young and the useless over with, we can go back to our regularly scheduled programming". which everyone in the immediate area cracked up on.
Jennifer wowed the crowd again by doing "don't you need" by melisa ethridge and she had another HUGE ovation when she did " need someone to stand by me" by stevie nicks. There were people who went to the frampton concert there as well (wearing the current tour shirt gave em away, lol). and after I did "When a blind man cries" for mike. I grabbed the book and looked up peter frampton. there were tqwo songs by him i wanted to see if i could do ( no.."do ya feel like I do" isn't one of them, fuck that, lol). I had mike take two cards and said "asap with these two if she can".
I picked two songs that are like ballads. "all i want to be is by your side" and "I'm in you". both songs frampton did at the concert. why none of the others who went to the concert and were doing karaoke thought of doing frampton songs, I'll don't know. seemed like a nobrainer to me. the frampton fans cheered when i did them two songs so I guess i did em pretty good. i dedicated them both to Jennifer. Bar time came and Mike did something nice for tammy and jerry. when they settled up their tab for the night. Mike added it up on the order pad...then tore it up and said "just hand me 20 bucks and it'll be fine". I was like "Mike, i know they had more than 20 bucks worth of food and drinks".he put his finger up to his lips like "ssshh, they're friends of yours bill and i'll make the exception. i made plenty from the crowd in here so your stuff being 'on the card' and them getting a discount isn't gonna break me". I told him we'll probably be back in tomarrow night after the collective soul concert. he asked if i was driving back to the dells "not tonight, fuck that, we got a hotel room". as much as i know I drank trying to go back to the dells would be too fucking dangerous. it was a good idea getting that last hotel room.
well my time is almost up here at this place so here's your update. sometime tmarrow I'll update on the collective soul concert and catch up with any bullshit I've been missing out on. later.
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